grey heron, Graureiher, ardeae cinerea

[Jan Bleil]

Last weekend i take this picture of grey heron. There is a colony of 16 grey heron.



MKIII
500 4.0 L IS + 1,4xTC
Tripod
ISO400 + f /5,6 + 1/1600s

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Jan This images are difficult to make them work for the bg clutter I know it is very difficult to photograph in colonies You did find a beautiful bird in breeding plumage I think with a perfect sun angle might have given you a better chance !!! Do look for birds flying in an out Will get some wall hangers !!!

[Jan Bleil]

Thank you for your post Alfred.

I think you mean a picture like this one:

I only would show a picture which not looks like the most of a grey heron ;-)

If it is not allowed to link a second picture in this thread please delete it. Then I will only copy the link in this post.

[Arthur Morris]

Jan, the re-post is 10,000,000 times more powerful than the ORIG... All that you need to do is move the bird back in the frame and lighten the underwings a bit.

The light is way to contrasty in the first image because--as Alfred mentioned--if the side light.

later and love, artie

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love the repost Jan and the lighting and eye contact is great as well as the action you captured here. . Nits have be covered. Thanks so much for sharing.

[Bob Ettinger]

As altready mentioned by Al that BG is very distracting but the other image in the clear sky works much better.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

The repost is much much better!
Agree with Artie to move the bird back in the frame!!